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Mark Palmer is the former US ambassador to Hungary and a vice-chair of Freedom House, a prominent human rights organization. He is also a founding member of Friends of Falun Gong USA, a U.S.-based non-profit human rights group.
WHO officials expressed on Tuesday that China’s military refused to offer data on how many members in China’s armed forces have been infected with the SARS illness.
In order to avoid being exposed and condemned for his vicious actions by
the international community, Jiang has sacrificed China’s best interests
through huge economic concessions and even ceding territory to countries susceptible
to his tactics in exchange for their silence.
During the Great Cultural Revolution in China, when I was only eight months old, my 22-year-old father was wronged, was labeled as an “active counterrevolutionary” and sent to a forced labor jail, just because he insisted on saying the truth.
Jiang single-handedly planned, launched and directed this persecution against Falun Gong practitioners, who persist in their belief in the universal characteristics of “Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance.” It is a most evil, irrational and brutal large-scale persecution against human beings. Jiang’s regime uses all the methods to torture and persecute people that were developed through decades of Party history; it uses the giant government machinery under the control of a totalitarian power; it exhausts the nation’s manpower and resources in a genocidal persecution of tens of millions of kind Falun Gong practitioners.
Regarding the SARS virus having raised concerns and caused panic in the world, I feel that there is something I must say. This is what a responsible person should consider.
Bringing a lawsuit against the Chinese dictator is not at all targeting China or the Chinese people, but targeting the person whose hands are stained with the blood of innocent people and his accomplices. These basic principles must be made clear.
A general sense of making a difference and presenting an event that was an attempt to touch people’s hearts. It was prominent to everyone that Falun Gong was a peaceful practice, and the practitioners that were at Bondi Beach displayed dignity and well-being.
Only when the truth is revealed about the innocent lives lost at the hands
of this regime will the damages born from its lies and propaganda be
tallied.
First of all, Falun Gong practitioners were exercising their rights by appealing as a group. The constitution of China clearly states that citizens have the right to appeal.
